Comments on: Back to the Land in Detroit? http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/10/06/back-to-the-land-in-detroit/ Covering San Francisco's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: zsolt http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/10/06/back-to-the-land-in-detroit/comment-page-1/#comment-42311 zsolt Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:56:14 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=56371#comment-42311 Paging James Howard Kunstler! Paging James Howard Kunstler!

]]> By: Jeffrey W. Baker http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/10/06/back-to-the-land-in-detroit/comment-page-1/#comment-42191 Jeffrey W. Baker Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:08:57 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=56371#comment-42191 Fran: I think we agree. The problem with the article is the "urban pioneers" come in, buy a warehouse or derelict mansion, throw a couple of whopping great parties for their hipster friends, then when dad's credit card is maxed out they go back to where they came from and take a job managing the Best Buy. In the meantime the city and the people who are already there gain nothing. Fran: I think we agree. The problem with the article is the “urban pioneers” come in, buy a warehouse or derelict mansion, throw a couple of whopping great parties for their hipster friends, then when dad’s credit card is maxed out they go back to where they came from and take a job managing the Best Buy. In the meantime the city and the people who are already there gain nothing.

]]> By: Fran Taylor http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/10/06/back-to-the-land-in-detroit/comment-page-1/#comment-42131 Fran Taylor Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:07:45 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=56371#comment-42131 Are the new homesteaders working with the people still living in Detroit, who are overwhelmingly poor and African American and still number in the hundreds of thousands, more than the population of San Francisco? This posting doesn't convey any sense of interaction with those Detroiters who have no means to leave, and the first comment above seems to reflect a frightening lack of interest in what their lives have become. The possibilities are indeed exciting but not if they result in some kind of new apartheid. Are the new homesteaders working with the people still living in Detroit, who are overwhelmingly poor and African American and still number in the hundreds of thousands, more than the population of San Francisco? This posting doesn’t convey any sense of interaction with those Detroiters who have no means to leave, and the first comment above seems to reflect a frightening lack of interest in what their lives have become. The possibilities are indeed exciting but not if they result in some kind of new apartheid.

]]> By: Jeffrey W. Baker http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/10/06/back-to-the-land-in-detroit/comment-page-1/#comment-42101 Jeffrey W. Baker Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:41:11 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=56371#comment-42101 Sure, one can go to Detroit to grow their own food, form communities of similarly-minded people, and be murdered. That last one is the sticking point for most people. Also the weather stinks. Sure, one can go to Detroit to grow their own food, form communities of similarly-minded people, and be murdered. That last one is the sticking point for most people.

Also the weather stinks.

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